1917—1918

Wages and maintenance are not subject to payment to workers and employees in full or in part in those cases where it is proven that the given factory or enterprise or individual parts thereof rendered active voluntary support to the enemy or aided him in his struggle against Soviet power.

The payment of wages and maintenance must be made at the expense of those persons, institutions, and departments under whose jurisdiction the occupied factory was placed at the moment of its seizure by the enemy, or their legal successors.

The question of whether the aforementioned voluntary active aid to the enemy took place is resolved in each individual case by a special commission composed of: 1 representative from the Supreme Council of the National Economy, 1 representative from the Commissariat of Military Affairs, 1 representative from the All-Russian Council of Trade Unions, 1 representative from the People's Commissariat of State Control, and 1 representative from the People's Commissariat of Labor.

The present decree is not subject to publication.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.

# TELEGRAM TO THE PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS

Astrakhan

November 12, 1918

Everything possible is being done. Press forward with unified work, with the restoration to health of the Soviet and professional unions in Astrakhan. Together with Saks, press forward on military affairs and the conquest of the Caspian, while at the same time aiding the North Caucasus Army. Do not even think of leaving without permission from here.

Lenin

Printed from a typewritten copy.

# TELEGRAM TO THE OREL PROVINCIAL PARTY COMMITTEE

Orel

Provincial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) for Ukrainians

November 13, 1918

I have just received a greeting from Unecha from the revolutionary soldiers of Germany*. I consider it extremely important that you telegraph to all border points with Ukraine about this and, responding on my behalf with gratitude for the greeting of the revolutionary soldiers of Germany, appeal to them with a request to help with swift and decisive action the liberation of Ukraine. Let the revolutionary soldiers of Germany complete the glorious German revolution they have begun with the arrest of White Guards in Ukraine and the liberation of Ukraine.

Long live the revolutionary soldiers of Germany in Ukraine!

Long live the fraternal alliance of the German Soviet Republic with the Ukrainian Soviet Republic!

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Lenin

# TO THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC

Urgent. Outside all precedence

November 15, 1918

I request permission to approve in the affirmative the project of the Central Bureau of Occupied Countries** regarding the formation

*On November 13, 1918, Lenin received the following telegram from Unecha: "Representatives of the revolutionary soldiers of Germany, delegates of the Lyshchenko Council of Soldiers' Deputies, jointly with the Unecha organization of the RCP(b), greet in Your person the world revolution. Representatives of the revolutionary German troops of the village of Lyshchi (signatures). Chairman of the Unecha organization of the RCP(b) Ivanov. Revolutionary Committee of Lynd. Commander of the Bogun Regiment Shchors" (Documents on the History of the Civil War in the USSR, vol. I, 1940, p. 425).

**The Central Bureau of Communist Organizations of the Occupied German-Interventionist Areas of Ukraine, Byelorussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and Finland was established under the CC RCP(b) at a conference in Moscow in October 1918.